Simon Worrall's piece from February's Maxim on the mysterious death of Bush/Rove/GOP IT guru Mike Connell is now available online.

As we noted in our detailed exclusive preview of the piece last month, the 3,500-word exposè by the British author and journalist is the closest thing to mainstream corporate media coverage that this story has received since Connell's death. Worrall offers a number of tantalizing facts and fresh interviews about the man whose companies and computers and websites were said to have been near the center of (among other under-investigated crimes) the alleged gaming of the 2004 Presidential Election in Ohio. He has also been posting a series of short "Back Story" pieces on this feature article over on his own blog that you may find interesting as well.

Connell died when the single-engine aircraft he was piloting just prior to Christmas 2008 crashed in flames near Akron. The tragedy came just weeks after he was compelled by a federal judge to give a deposition in a long-standing 2004 federal election fraud lawsuit, on the heels of reports that Connell had been threatened by Rove to "take the fall" for whatever happened in '04. After Worrall's year-long investigation, he believes it's highly likely that Connell was, in fact, murdered.

The BRAD BLOG earned 2010 Project Censored award for "Excellence in Investigative Journalism" for our own coverage of the Connell story. Highlights of that coverage are linked below. (And P.S.: Our own feature article on the formerly-gagged FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, in the March issue of Hustler, is still currently on the stands!)...

Corporate owned (not liberal) media doing their job, they don't inform Americans that they got a tax cut...but then do a poll showing Americans don't know they got a tax cut, as if someone else is to blame:

How come everyone reports Connell was "holier than thou", when he was a Catholic (he-he)
The whole spiel about a certain religion is that you can sin all you want as long as you go to confession and have your sins absolved. He must have really felt guilty as he had to go twice a day!!!
"Oh Fuck"

Stop the Press! Simon Worrall "believes it's highly likely that Connell was, in fact, murdered." Brad, you might want to update your
"Exclusive" of the "mysterious death" of the "Bush/Rove/GOP It Guru" with the "tantalizing facts" found in the NTSB final report. Its been out for weeks. I'm no friend of Bush,Rove or the GOP;but you've tarnished your reputation and that of the Left. "Excellence in Investigative Journalism"?! Hillarious!

Q:
What kind of bilgewater-slog of a disgusting human being do you have to be to write a goading-gotcha comment like the one above re: the potential murder of a man who may have taken the fall for the ratprick-slicks who stole 2 elections, took us off to illegal war and gave this country to the corporations? Hmmmmmm?

Followup Q:
And how much gall does it take for this subterranean, single-celled, filth of a person to write such a thing in the comments section of a real journalist whose critical work is (finally) being validated (though not by measure enough) on the subject, and who takes his Fourth Estate responsibilities seriously enough to tell us the truth?

...just wanna know. Do we need a new sliding scale, now, to gauge this kind of scale 10, first degree, top-tiered, no-holes-barred trolling? (Tea-trolls? Troll-harded-tards?)

...or do we see a rancid comment like Tea-Jay's, and ignore it because we know it means that Brad's (continued) validation is driving someone to ankle grab n' take it for these blacktreasonouspoisonous pricks?

So, yes, I guess that doesn't make you a "friend" of Bush, Rove, or the GOP - just their gang rape victim.

An excellent piece from Mr. Worrall. Thank you, Maxim. I bought it last week at the airport and poured over it on the plane...

...cried for his widow.

I have seen first-hand how government agencies "clean up" human remains when they're in a damn hurry to shutter the evidence away. Heather Connell's description of the condition of the crash site, to me, is the most compelling evidence of foul play.

On top of being the most disrespectful way to treat our honored dead.
Right, TeeJay?

Hey #3, scared rabbit syndrome is what keeps this country heading straight to the bottom. If you can't look at the obvious, beyond coincidental information surrounding his death but choose instead to take a coverup report as simply proof enough to satisfy you, you don't understand the depth power will go to to protect itself. Good luck with that scared rabbit syndrome in the face of eternity. Keep up the GREAT WORK Brad!

US citizens may have gotten a tax cut but American citizens are absent the liability to pay by virtue of the fact that without the "income" generated by working for the federal government or signing a W4 or being an "officer of a domestic corporation" (where domestic means and includes the District of Columbia) we don't owe no stinkin' income tax.

Note the passing reference, in the piece below, to the questions raised about the crash by "left-leaning bloggers and Web sites." From that aside you'd never know that those who've raised such questions now include Connell's widow, Heather, as well as cyber-expert Stephen Spoonamore--neither of whom "leans left" at all: on the contrary.

The NTSB said Thursday the airplane crashed because of Connell's "inappropriate control inputs as a result of spatial disorientation, which led to an aerodynamic stall and loss of control."

Investigators ruled Connell's statement he was "due north and climbing" was a sign of spatial disorientation.

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Yes, well that can happen when there is a microprocessor installed in your plane that confuses the Instrument Landing System and gives incorrect information to the pilot so that he cannot really correct.

The one detail in the Connell crash that has nagged at me for years is the fact that this plane crashed into an UNOCCUPIED home,in a residential neighborhood full of otherwise OCCUPIED homes.

Had the plane crash landed into an occupied dwelling, possibly killing or maiming the residents, surely lawsuits would have ensued to determine more particulars of the reason for the crash-and the actions of Mr. Connell prior to the unfortunate event.

On a "slightly" more serious note about trolls who pop into various forums and say "you're all wack (sic) jobs"...

I often wonder if they are:
1) paid disinformers, trying to disrupt a conversation
2) loons, who do this as the equivalent of putting fingers in both their ears and yelling.. LALALALALALALA
3) really smart people who know something that we don't (seems unlikely)
4) ??

have any of you ever had an actual face to face "conversation" with someone who would make a post like that?

After all the work Connell did for the Bushes, going back to pre-internet days, you'd think they would have issued a statement regarding the tragic loss of their dedicated IT specialist.

Weird that Mrs. Connell didn't comment on condolences, or lack thereof from Bush, Rove, McCain or staff. How did it seem to her in terms of her husbands hugely high-profile clients not publicly paying their respects?

I think the media silence on all this is stunning, especially Rachel Maddow (her decision?). The fact that the FBI is investigating the "Mark Felt" letters should be newsworthy. Can any of you media insiders get the story-behind-the-non-story?